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hotel21 Administrator Offline Posts: 12766 Doghouse Gender: Drives: into lamposts	Re: Coolant flush Reply #75 - 23. Sep 2007 at 16:54 You are doing OK, just take care to relieve the pressure in the system by gentle release of the expansion tank cap before drain. Take care not to get scalded. Obviously much better to allow the engine to cool considerably (hour or two?) before adding cold and running/flushing again.
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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Coolant flush Reply #76 - 23. Sep 2007 at 16:56 i turnt off the engine at 3.55pm, its 5pm now should i go start by 2nd stage now or wait a bit longer?
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hotel21 Administrator Offline Posts: 12766 Doghouse Gender: Drives: into lamposts	Re: Coolant flush Reply #77 - 23. Sep 2007 at 17:04 Better leave it for another hour....
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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Coolant flush Reply #78 - 23. Sep 2007 at 17:06 so 2 hours between each drain and re-fill? damm, i hate all this waiting!!!! and now its raining! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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Re: Coolant flush
Reply #79 - 23. Sep 2007 at 17:46

Wayne wrote on 23. Sep 2007 at 16:46:

Just done the first of todays coolant flushes after doing loads yesterday

does this brown lucky gunk ever go away?
after putting 5 litres in ox the VX red stuff yesterday, when i just emptied it, it was murky dirty orangey brown!

i drained, refilled, then ran engine on hot on the heater for 10 minutes

got the temperature up to 95

how long a time should i leave it to cool down?

gonna try and do this until dark tonight

then a million more times tomorrow!

DAMM THIS BROWN FILTH!!

The more you do it, the better the end result will be

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Re: Coolant flush
Reply #80 - 23. Sep 2007 at 18:29

number 2 !!! Grin

only 80000000 flushes to go

although i have treated my coolant system to Forte already, still lots of brown gunk in there
i cant afford another £16 for anymore, its just too expensive, should i use some WYNNS coolant flush tomorrow?
or is 1 of these flushants good enough just once when doing all this? will i damage anything?

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TheBoy Administrator Offline TBE has an MOT! Posts: 64817 Brackley, Northants Gender: Drives: 98 MV6, 03 Elite, 00 25, 89 ZX10	Re: Coolant flush Reply #81 - 23. Sep 2007 at 18:31 Did you follow the instructions on the forte - including running the engine for the specified amount of time?
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Re: Coolant flush
Reply #82 - 23. Sep 2007 at 18:32

Wayne wrote on 23. Sep 2007 at 18:29:

number 2 !!! Grin

only 80000000 flushes to go

although i have treated my coolant system to Forte already, still lots of brown gunk in there
i cant afford another £16 for anymore, its just too expensive, should i use some WYNNS coolant flush tomorrow?
or is 1 of these flushants good enough just once when doing all this? will i damage anything?

cheers

Mate if the car is not overheating, I would personally just flush lots and lots with water, and then refill with 50/50 longlife antifreeze Thumbs Up!

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Re: Coolant flush
Reply #83 - 23. Sep 2007 at 18:39

James - i done the flushing with water yesterday about a million times

i added 5 litres of anti-freeze already
came back 2 hours later and the stuff was dirty blueish brown!
so that must mean its still full of crap?
i already done 2 flushes today with 15 - 20 minutes of engine running and heater on MAX
i dont want to buy another 5 litres of the red stuff and then add it, and it turns bluey shitty brown again
this "simple" coolant change is costing me a fortune!
my car isnt overheating, and YES i did follow the Forte instructions, the instructions do NOT tell you nothing, i ran my car for 40 minutes on my drive.... i didnt rate the stuff that well, as i still got gunk coming out
after just finishing number 2 flush, will look in the morning and see what colour it is again, i wont be surprised if its shitty still?
am i doing something wrong?
will i know that the time is right to add the red stuff IF i leave my car for 2-3 hours and come back and the water in the header tank is finally crystal clear like water?

when you coming to check my rocker gaskets James?

PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cry

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Re: Coolant flush
Reply #84 - 23. Sep 2007 at 18:45

Wayne wrote on 23. Sep 2007 at 18:39:

James - i done the flushing with water yesterday about a million times

i added 5 litres of anti-freeze already
came back 2 hours later and the stuff was dirty blueish brown!
so that must mean its still full of crap?
i already done 2 flushes today with 15 - 20 minutes of engine running and heater on MAX
i dont want to buy another 5 litres of the red stuff and then add it, and it turns bluey shitty brown again
this "simple" coolant change is costing me a fortune!
my car isnt overheating, and YES i did follow the Forte instructions, the instructions do NOT tell you nothing, i ran my car for 40 minutes on my drive.... i didnt rate the stuff that well, as i still got gunk coming out
after just finishing number 2 flush, will look in the morning and see what colour it is again, i wont be surprised if its shitty still?
am i doing something wrong?
will i know that the time is right to add the red stuff IF i leave my car for 2-3 hours and come back and the water in the header tank is finally crystal clear like water?

when you coming to check my rocker gaskets James?

PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cry

If you ran the engine with the forte in, thats fine, no need to put more chemicals in

Just need to keep flushing through with water

As we've said, you cannot (easily) fully drain V6, so each time you do it, you are lowering the percentage of the naff stuff, so the more you do it, the more you get out

. Because you cannot fully drain V6 is why, when garage drains and refills, you are not really getting a proper job.

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Re: Coolant flush
Reply #85 - 23. Sep 2007 at 18:48

OKAY MATE

just getting concerned incase i bugger my car up
as to my question in my previous post, whats the answer to finally knowing when its time to add the VX red stuff?
it seems everytime i come back 2 hours later and check the header tank, its murky coloured again
should it be clear after a billion flushes then?
i was thinking, my car is a 1998 so it isnt new car... can you really get them to run as clear as water and actually see the red stuff staying red?

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Re: Coolant flush
Reply #86 - 23. Sep 2007 at 18:54

Wayne wrote on 23. Sep 2007 at 18:48:

OKAY MATE

just getting concerned incase i bugger my car up
as to my question in my previous post, whats the answer to finally knowing when its time to add the VX red stuff?
it seems everytime i come back 2 hours later and check the header tank, its murky coloured again
should it be clear after a billion flushes then?
i was thinking, my car is a 1998 so it isnt new car... can you really get them to run as clear as water and actually see the red stuff staying red?

When you say murky, any signs of oil in it (will be like a light brown creamy mayo)?

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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Coolant flush Reply #87 - 23. Sep 2007 at 18:58 none of that stuff mate, the refilled water just seems a bit off colour when u check it after 2 hours nothing floating around, just very murky, my point is that after i added the red stuff on saturday and came back, you couldnt see any red whatsoever in the coolant tank, it had gone back to a bluey sort of browney colour
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Re: Coolant flush
Reply #88 - 23. Sep 2007 at 19:09

Wayne wrote on 23. Sep 2007 at 18:39:

i didnt rate the stuff that well, as i still got gunk coming out
after just finishing number 2 flush

That's a GOOD thing! The forte breaks down all the crud in the system, as said, it doesn't look to be doing any good but i'm pretty sure when you've done all this your Omega will be the coolest on the block Grin

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Wayne Senior Member Offline where does this bit go? i got 2 screws left over! Posts: 540 Horspath - Oxfordshire - UK Gender: Drives: 1998 S Reg Omega CDX 2.5 V6 Estate	Re: Coolant flush Reply #89 - 23. Sep 2007 at 19:11 coolest on the block? ha ha ha i hope so after all this!!! i just want the damm red VX antifreeze to stay red after i return to check it, something which is NOT happening and costing me a damm fortune
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